HEAVY FIRING
GUNS ON THE CHANNEL
STRONG BRITISH RESPONSE
CONVOY ESCAPES
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received November 27, 1.45 p.m.)
LONDON, November 26,
English and German long-range guns resumed their cross-Channel duel this morning. A single shell landed in Dover, after which the British bombarded the enemy posi* tions.
The German shelling of a convoy last night consisted of two-gun salvos from Cap Gris-nez at intervals of three minutes. Several batteries joined in the bombardment which shook the Kent coast and continued with unabated fury for an hour, during which British long-range guns plastered the emplacements with a heavy curtain of shells and screened the passage of the convoy. The Germans fired 150 shells in two hours. The firing then slowed down and the convoy safely steamed out of range. Observers report that not a single enemy shell scored a direct hit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 8
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141HEAVY FIRING Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 8
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